• @vanderbilt
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    566 months ago

    It’s rather complicated. In the “in-between” times, firearms were considered a coward’s weapon, making the user a “sniper” and thus less honorable than those who used more traditional arms. This faded with time however, as most ideas do.

    • @SkyezOpen
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      1176 months ago

      This faded with time however

      Yeah, because the people that thought that way got fucking shot.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          26 months ago

          Also because they became more accurate and more skill dependent. Early guns were just RNG. That’s why muskets were most useful fired in barrages.

      • @yamanii
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        26 months ago

        In latin languages it’s even called “besta” to indicate it’s from the beast (Satan)

    • @[email protected]
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      Bro American Sniper was a fucking badass film. No politics or anything. Just a guy shooting terrorists.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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        6 months ago

        It has the same quality as that nazi propaganda sniper movie from inglorious basterds. Just different insignias

          • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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            I just hate military propaganda with passion

            Showing all these cringy hero scenes with lofty music black hawk down etc. We are the good guys, heroes and all that horseshit.